Bed-Stuy YMCA Begins Expansion
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Mayor Bloomberg helped break ground yesterday on a massive expansion of a YMCA in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn that will include a new 19,000 square-foot state-of-the-art main building, and will allow the YMCA to nearly double the number of children it serves each year to 13,000.
“With nearly 35% of the population of Bedford-Stuyvesant under the age of 19, it will make a tremendous difference in the community,” Mr. Bloomberg told reporters yesterday.
The Y will also be home to the new Bedford Academy High School starting in September, the mayor announced. “This is a perfect example of how we’re creatively and aggressively finding homes for our new small secondary schools and this partnership will help us to meet our target of creating 200 of these schools by 2007,” he said.”
The new building will be on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Monroe Street, and will be completed by the end of 2005. The construction and renovation are expected to cost about $8 million.
